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The dispersion relation of surface plasmon polaritons in graphene that includes optical losses is often obtained for complex wave vectors while the frequencies are assumed to be real. This approach, however, is not suitable for describing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Zeeshan Ahmad , Egor A. Muljarov , Sang Soon Oh

We describe a peculiar fine structure acquired by the in-plane optical phonon at the Gamma-point in graphene when it is brought into resonance with one of the inter-Landau-level transitions in this material. The effect is most pronounced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-09-24 M. O. Goerbig , J. -N. Fuchs , K. Kechedzhi , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

We discuss the quantum Hall effect on a single-layer graphene in the framework of noncommutative (NC) phase space. We find it induces a shift in the Hall resistivity. Furthermore, comparison with experimental data reveals an upper bound on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-11 Willien O. Santos , Guilherme M. A. Almeida , Andre M. C. Souza

We study KPZ surfaces on Euclidean lattices and directed polymers on hierarchical lattices subject to different distributions of disorder, showing that universality holds, at odds with recent results on Euclidean lattices. Moreover, we find…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo De Los Rios

We calculate the shot noise generated by evanescent modes in graphene for several experimental setups. For two impurity-free graphene strips kept at the Dirac point by gate potentials, separated by a long highly doped region, we find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 A. D. Wiener , M. Kindermann

The dynamical approach is applied to ballistic transport in mesoscopic graphene samples of length L and contact potential U. At times shorter than both relevant time scales, the flight time and \hslash/U, the major effect of the electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Lewkowicz , B. Rosenstein , D. Nghiem

We study transport properties of graphene nanostructures consisted of alternating slabs of gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of piecewise constant external potential equal to zero in the gapless regions. The transmission through…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 E. S. Azarova , G. M. Maksimova

We show that the origin of the universal optical conductivity in a normal $N$-layer graphene multilayer is an emergent chiral symmetry which guarantees that $\sigma(\omega)=N\sigma_{uni}$ in both low and high frequency limits.…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-08-06 Hongki Min , A. H. MacDonald

Many of graphene's unique electronic properties emerge from its Dirac-like electronic energy spectrum. Similarly, it is expected that a nanophotonic system featuring Dirac dispersion will open a path to a number of important research…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Bravo-Abad , J. D. Joannopoulos , M. Soljacic

We present exact results for the electronic transport properties of graphene sheets connected to two metallic electrodes. Our results, obtained by transfer-matrix methods, are valid for all sheet widths and lengths. In the limit of large…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Shijie Hu , Wei Du , Guiping Zhang , Miao Gao , Zhong-Yi Lu , Xiaoqun Wang

A simple model for flexural phonons in graphite (and graphene, corresponding to the limiting case of infinite distance between carbon planes) is proposed, in which the local dipolar moment is assumed to be proportional to the curvature of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-16 Konstantin L. Metlov

While preserving many of the unusual features of single-layer graphene, few-layer graphene (FLG) provides a richness and flexibility of electronic structure that render this set of materials of great interest for both fundamental studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-04 Kin Fai Mak , Matthew Y. Sfeir , James A. Misewich , Tony F. Heinz

We have implemented a generic method, based on the 2n+1 theorem within density functional perturbation theory, to calculate the anharmonic scattering coefficients among three phonons with arbitrary wavevectors. The method is used to study…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-06-24 Lorenzo Paulatto , Francesco Mauri , Michele Lazzeri

We theoretically consider the effect of plasmon collective modes on the frequency-dependent conductivity of graphene in the presence of the random static potential of charged impurities. We develop an equation of motion approach suitable…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-09 K. Kechedzhi , S. Das Sarma

Significant excitonic effects were observed in graphene by measuring its optical conductivity in a broad spectral range including the two-dimensional {\pi}-band saddle-point singularities in the electronic structure. The strong…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-20 Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan , Tony F. Heinz

Graphene has attracted great attentions since its first discovery in 2004. Various approaches have been proposed to control its physical and electronic properties. Here, we report that graphene based intercalation compounds is an efficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-04 Da Zhan , Li Sun , Zhenhua Ni , Lei Liu , Xiaofeng Fan , Yingying Wang , Ting Yu , Yeng Ming Lam , Wei Huang , Zexiang Shen

The $\gamma \gamma^\ast \to \eta_{c,b}$ transition form factors are computed using a continuum approach to the two valence-body bound-state problem in relativistic quantum field theory, and thereby unified with equivalent calculations of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-19 Khepani Raya , Minghui Ding , Adnan Bashir , Lei Chang , Craig D. Roberts

Materials with massless Dirac fermions can possess exceptionally strong and widely tunable optical nonlinearities. Experiments on graphene monolayer have indeed found very large third-order nonlinear responses, but the reported variation of…

We study the optical properties of double-layer graphene for linearly polarized evanescent modes and discuss the in-phase and out-of-phase plasmon modes for both, longitudinal and transverse polarization. We find a energy for which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 T. Stauber , G. Gómez-Santos

In this paper, we predict the existence of low-frequency nonlocal plasmon excitations at the vacuum-surface interface of a superlattice of $N$ graphene layers interacting with a thick conducting substrate. This is different from graphite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Jhao-Ying Wu , M. F. Lin , Paula Fekete